#taurëa adj. "forested" in Tumbaletaurëa, see Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna...
Quenya
tumbaletaurëa
proper name. Deepvalleyforested
Element in
- Q. Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna Tumbaletaurëa Lómëanor ✧ Let/448; LotR/0467; LotR/1131
Elements
Word Gloss tumbalë “depth, deep valley” taurëa “forested”
taurëa
forested
taurëa
adjective. forested
A word for “forested” appearing in the Entish phrase Tumbaletaurëa “Deepvalleyforested” (LotR/1131), it is simply the adjective form of taurë “forest”.
Element in
- Q. Tumbaletaurëa “Deepvalleyforested” ✧ LotR/1131
Elements
Word Gloss taurë “forest, (great) wood” -a “adjectival suffix”
tumba
deep valley
tumba noun "deep valley" (Letters:308; SA:tum and TUB gives tumbo "valley, deep valley"); apparently an extended form *tumbalë in tumbalemorna "deepvalleyblack" or (according to SA:tum) "black deep valley", also tumbaletaurëa "deepvalleyforested"; see Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna...
tumba
adjective. deep valley, [ᴹQ.] deep, lowlying; [Q.] deep valley
The adjective ᴹQ. tumba “deep, lowlying” appeared in rough (and ultimately rejected) notes on irregular verbs from the Quenya Verbal System of the late 1940s as a derivative of ᴹ√TUB “fall low, go down” (PE22/127). In a 1961 letter to Rhona Beare tumba was glossed “deep valley” as an element in the Entish phrase Q. Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna Tumbaletaurëa Lómëanor “Forestmanyshadowed-deepvalleyblack Deepvalleyforested Gloomyland” (Let/308; LotR/467), but I think this is only an approximate translation, and the word is better understood as adjectival in sense: “✱like a deep valley”. As further evidence of this, in notes from the late 1960s the form tumba was changed to a more typical noun form Q. tumbo in the name Q. i Tumbo Tarmacorto “the Vale of the High Mountain Circle” (NM/351).
Neo-Quenya: For purposes of Neo-Quenya, I’d treat this word as an adjective only, and use Q. tumbo for the noun.
Changes
Tumba→ Tumbo ✧ NM/351Element in
- Q. tumbalë “depth, deep valley”
- Q. Tumbaletaurëa “Deepvalleyforested” ✧ Let/308
Variations
- Tumba ✧ NM/355 (
Tumba)
A descriptive name of Fangorn appearing in the even longer Entish description of that land: Taurelilómëa-tumbalemorna Tumbaletaurëa Lómëanor (LotR/467). The name is a combination of tumbalë “deep valley, depth” and taurëa “forested” (LotR/1131, PE17/80).